REPORTED STATEMENT BY ENVOY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24896, 8 June 1946, Page 7

REPORTED STATEMENT BY ENVOY

“Two members of General Franco’s Government met representatives of Senor Jose Giral's Republican Government in exile, at Arneguy, on French mil near the Spanish frontier,” said a correspondent of the ‘‘Journal de Biarritz.” •One member of the Franco Government, who insisted on remaining anonymous, said: ‘As a result of the Security Council’s decision we will undoubtedly finally be forced to capitulate. I’shall probably be judged by my compatriots as you judged the Vichyites after your liberation. Nevertheless, I will do everything to spare Scaia a new revolution.

-““We the result of the eleeUon before taking action, thi C »?CT kn ® w that Spain had everynhnJ,gJo - f^ ar ’- uiclpding a war from a Communist victory, but now ftiat risk of war is avoided and we are here to Illy?.. the Spanis h question pacific-

He asked the correspondent to astte *X enc .h . people that Spain knew how to join the concert of nations without bloodshed. He added Essentially Catholic, hut liberty r loving, Spam will take every precaution to avoid calling in the Red peril, while nevertheless establishing a Republican regime.” *